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Last year I intermingled my irreverent and parodic based predictions with the real ones, but this year I will seperate the two. First will be the serious predictions and then we’ll have the comic relief because we are going to need it. Please feel free to add your own in the comments and join me on the radio if you would like to share them. Tuesday January 5th at 6pm ET I will be discussing these on The Freedom’s Wings Show.

1. Unemployment will see no real improvement. Juan Williams of National Public Radio believes that unemployment will recover to 8%. I hardly think so. I see the unemployment rate going up once again to a peak of 10.6% and then just leveling off. At best, the rate may drop to 10%, but that is not enough to benefit the Democrats in the 2010 election.

2. The word for the economy of 2010 will be static. I think the stock market will continue the up and down gyrations. Housing will continue to remain where it was for the latter part of 2009, which will see more foreclosures and few new home buyers. Home values I think will fall a bit as well, but nothing drastic. There will not be a Depression.

3. Something will change in the economy towards the end of the year and I believe that will be Ben Bernanke raising interest rates as inflation rears its head. This will result in Stagflation because interest rates will be up and unemployment will still be high.

4. The personal economies of the states will be the ones that will suffer. Several states will face bankruptcy and collapse and will have to turn to the federal government for loans giving the government unprecedented control over the states and a breakdown of the 10th Amendment that so many states are re-establishing. These states include: California, New York, Florida, Michigan, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.

5. Porkulus Bill 2 will appear sometime before summer. This will also be sold as a recovery bill and I expect it will contain the term “jobs” somewhere in the title because the government continues to think that throwing federal money at the problem will solve it.

6. Debt ceiling will be reached again before summer and, yet again, the Congress will vote to raise it to the level of $13 trillion.

7. Without a doubt, everyone’s taxes will go up and Obama will explain that it is a necessity.

8. There will be a shake up in the Obama administration at the very top – yes, that would be between VP Joe Biden and the President. I foresee a big disagreement that finally pushes Biden over the edge and he steps down. Michelle Obama would like to replace him, but I see Bill Richardson being chosen.

9. In the 2010 elections, the House will lose 40 seats and the Senate will lose the supermajority and change to 51 Republicans and 40 Democrats. Chris Dodd, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer will be out. Republican governors will win big as well and even local elections will see an influx of third party candidates winning for state representation.

10. ObamaCare will pass, but it will be a skeleton of itself and the public will realize it is a tax and spend bill and nothing more. The only true reform will come in the way of digitizing records. Otherwise, the federal abortion funding will be out, the public option will be out and the inability to repeal the bill will be out. The unconstitutional individual mandate will remain as well as the pay off earmarks, which will have increased to get liberal Democrats in the House on board.

11. Card Check will pass with the help of increased pressure from all of the unions. This will be the pay off to the unions for backing ObamaCare that will raise taxes on union health insurance.

12. ClimateGate will spread as more scientists are revealed to be providing fraudulent data. Big name universities will be named. At this time, the mainstream media will be forced to cover the story and Crap & Tax will die in the Senate. Global cooling continues.

13. The big push to buy gold will suffer a scandal as counterfeit gold is discovered to have been sold to a large number of people. The value of gold will raise steadily though as the dollar continues to tank because the Treasury will be unable to stop printing money hand over fist.

14. The Tea Party Movement will continue to gain prominence as it organizes and will generate a huge shift in politics in America. Tax Day Tea Party 2010 will have twice the numbers across the country as last year, meaning some two million people will attend events. Glenn Beck’s gathering in August will host 2.5 million people.

15. Kim Jong-il will die this year.

16. Pope Benedict will suffer a major health crisis.

17. A major earthquake will hit the west coast as the Ring of Fire’s activity picks up. I expect to see at least one, if not two, new volcanos to become active this year as well. The earth will be suffering birth pains.

18. Amnesty is going to pass, but not in the form that the left would like. I believe this bill will be bi-partisan (due to McCain and Grahamnesty) because it is watered down. This will not be blanket citizenship and will require criminal invaders to pay fines, back taxes and register to vote. They will not have to return to Mexico and then come back.

19. Israel drop bombs on Iranian nuclear sites. Iran will retaliate with missiles and do damage to Israel, but the Iranian regime will not have support from other Arab states and Russia and China will remain behind the scenes and not helpful. I do not think World War III will erupt at this time because…

20. The Iranian regime will fall. The attack by Israel will embolden the revolutionaries to overthrow their regime and it will be replaced with a Democratic government.

21. A large-scale terrorist attack will take place in America. Several hundred people will be killed and wounded. Barack Obama will follow this up with a strongly worded speech.

22. Jay Leno will leave Prime Time in this utterly failed experiment.

23. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will remain much the same even with the surge. Yemen and Pakistan will continue to be hit with drone bombs.

Okay, so I know that makes for a pretty bleak 2010, but keep in mind that we usually end up having several feel good stories that make big news as well but they result from unbelievable circumstances so I cannot even begin to guess what these events will be. Now it is to the fun stuff. These are just comical predictions.

1. Tiger Woods makes a rebound and adds a sponsor for a change: Hooters. He legally changes his name to better facilitate his return to prominence to Lion Gigalo – rather that should by lyin’.

2. Balloon boy is replaced by Hamster Ball Boy as a child gets trapped in his inventor dad’s experimental new exerciser and rolls across a major American city, weaving dangerously through traffic unable to stop.

8. Northern New York state secedes from the bottom half of New York and New York City in particular to escape the tax code.

9. It is revealed that Rachel Madcow is really a man, but posed as a woman because she/he thought she/he could go farther in the media that way.

10. Barack Obama receives the award for “Most Eloquent Teleprompter Reader, Biggest Equivocator Of The Year.” Obama carries it with him everywhere he goes thinking that it is a positive development, while TOTUS goes on strike for getting no recognition.

First black president inaugurated. Remember these empty words from the speech: “On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.” He promised to “begin again the work of remaking America.” My how he has begun that by remaking us into his community organized Marxist utopia. And the lies continued with, “And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account – to spend wisely, reform bad habits and do our business in the light of day – because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”

The President goes on to spend more in his first year than all other presidents combined.

Auto bailouts. General Motors (GM) becomes Government Motors as the government becomes the majority shareholder. President Obama, in an unprecedented move, fires the CEO of GM.

Insurance giant AIG almost goes under, but the government comes to the rescue again and provides a large bailout. AIG subsequently passes out large bonuses to executives and parties big time on our dime. “Outraged citizens” are bused around by ACORN to the different executives homes in staged demonstrations.

Obama spent the year circling the globe, apologizing for America everywhere he went. Who can forget the Cairo Speech, UN speech, bows to Saudi King, Japanese Emperor and Chinese Premier and handshake with Hugo Chavez?

The President moves the Census from the Department of Commerce to the White House and attempts to have ACORN run it.

Obama does away with enhanced interrogation techniques and orders that only the Army Field Manual will be employed leading to…

No more “War on Terror”. It is now dubbed the Overseas Contingency Operation and terrorists become enemy combatants and then just criminals. Terrorists acts become “man-made disasters .” In that vein, the decision is made by Attorney General Holder to try the 9/11 terrorists in New York City. Obama begins to realize his dream of closing GITMO by releasing Jihadists to Bermuda and having the government buy a prison in Illinois where the detainees will be moved.

Attorney General Eric Holder also drops charges on Black Panthers who intimidated people at polling places and in a speech refers to America as a “nation of cowards.”

Maoists and Marxists are revealed to be rampant in the Obama administration. Green Jobs Czar Van Jones steps down as well as Anita Dunn who declared Mao to be one of her heroes along with Mother Theresa.

Obama declares that he has saved the economy from the brink and the recession is over. Economy has slight bump up, but stock market continues to yo-yo and financial bubbles loom in the future along with the collapse of the dollar. Several countries suggest unhinging from dollar and seeking a new global currency.

The Porkulus Bill (Stimulus recovery) is passed and Obama promises to save or create 4, no wait 3.5, um make that 3 million jobs. It has been an utter failure with rampant fraud and the few jobs created costing somewhere in the area of $200,000 each. Record unemployment has reached levels as much as 10.2% federally with most states suffering much worse numbers.

Air Force One flying over New York City and the Statue of Liberty for a photo op, sending New Yorkers running for their lives thinking 9/11 is happening again.

Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court. A woman whom has made blatant racist comments and believes that policy is created from the bench.

The Beer Summit! Who can forget the President jumping to conclusions and declaring that the Cambridge Police Force acted stupidly when arresting a friend of his, Professor Gates. The President promptly invited his friend and Sgt. James Crowley for a photo op teachable moment at the White House and the three men drank beer around a table while accomplishing nothing.

Two omnibus spending bills full of pork and earmarks passed by Congress and signed by the President. One has 9,00- earmarks and the other contains 5,000. A separate Defense Bill contains several billion more in earmarks. What happened to no earmarks?

Approval ratings for the President go into freefall. An upper seventy percentage rating upon Inauguration eventually deflated to a 46% approval rating.

The Obama family brings home their family dog, Bo. An expensive, hard to find breed and not a shelter dog.

Obama announced plans for Afghanistan surge of troops. He chooses to send 30,000 although General McChrystal requested much more and soldiers I have talked to suggest at lease 100,000 are needed and probably more.

Obama meets the Queen of England and gives her an iPod already loaded with his speeches. He gives the Prime Minister a set of DVDs that do not work in European machines.

The Heathcare Debate! This has gone on for the better part of the entire year with a final culmination in the House passing a bill and then the Senate passing a bill. The bills now need to merge in committee. The House plan has a public option while the Senate version does not. The debate over government healthcare has outraged citizens and created deep dividing lines between socialism and the free market.

The healthcare debate and outrageous spending lead to rallies across the nation dubbed as Tea Parties. And a movement was sparked! Concerned citizens have gathered throughout the year at rallies, counter-rallies, townhalls and tea parties to protest government intrusion, taxes, and loss of freedom. The goal has been to get America back to her founding principles. Large gatherings happened simultaneously nationwide on Tax Day, Independence Day and a large 9/12 March On Washington that was attended by over one million people. The tea parties caused liberals to lose their heads, like Janeane Garofalo who called tea partiers “red neck racists” and MSNBC commentators to call tea partiers “teabaggers”, and the President to pretend to be unaware of the protests and then finally refer to the rallies as places where people were waving around tea bags.

The President promises to dismantle our nuclear stockpile while North Korea test fires missiles and Iran ramps up efforts to make nuclear bombs. Iran has ignored all international requests to cease and desist and the President and other leaders have been left impotent.

Miracle on the Hudson! One of the few feel good stories of the year. Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was able to bring down a full airliner after a flock of birds took out both engines without anyone dying and only a few injuries, using the Hudson River as a landing strip. People will recall images of the passengers waiting on the wings of the sinking plane as ferries raced out to rescue everyone.

The Swine Flu! The name quickly was changed to H1N1 Virus and everyone fears that a pandemic is on the horizon. America overreacts as only a few thousand die. Far below the number that die from the regular seasonal flu. Not enough vaccine is made available and rationing begins legitimizing fears that government run healthcare will lead to rationing.

The Iranian Protests! A fraudulent vote puts Iamadinnerjacket back in power and outraged Iranians take to the streets in the summer. The protests continue to this day as Iranians make their move toward full revolution to overthrow their corrupt government. Obama gives no support and promises that we will “bear witness”. Gee thanks, Barry!

Somali pirates! Pirates have long been a problem, but until this year and remained largely ignored by America. That was until the Maersk Alabama, an American ship, was hijacked. Captain Richard Phillips offered up himself as a hostage as his crew locked themselves below deck. For days we watched the pirates hold the captain hostage in a dingy. Finally, the Navy SEALS took action and killed three of the four pirates and freed Capt. Phillips. New reports from the crew disparage the Captain’s courage and claim he was captured because he was stupid, but it still was a great day for our military.

The Ft. Hood Massacre! On November 5th, Jihadist Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army Major, mowed down 13 people (14 if you count the unborn baby) and wounded 30 others at Ft. Hood in Texas. A female police officer takes him down leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. The President takes a long time to address the nation and spends the first two minutes of his comments giving a shout out and thanking everyone at the gathering he is at for a great time and is quite jovial. Americans are left baffled by the man boy pretending to be a leader. Obama tells everyone not to jump to conclusions – unlike what he did with the Cambridge Police.

Bernie Madoff commits the largest Ponzi scheme in history leaving millions penniless. He is sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Roman Polanski finally arrested for a 1970s sex charge for drugging and raping a thirteen year old girl. He is put under house arrest.

ClimateGate!! The global warming hoax is up. The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Eastern Europe is hacked and emails are released to the public that revealed an effort to cover up cooling temperatures, efforts to shut down scientists who were debunking manmade global warming and revealing an effort to coach certain members of the media in how to report on climate change. They deliberately changed, manipulated and deleted data. This came out before the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen and world leaders, including Obama, completely ignore it.

Ted Kennedy dies. Boo hoo…

Susan Boyle blows us all away with the voice of an angel and the face of a troll. She has become a sensation and sold more records internationally then anyone else. The video of her break out goes viral with several million hits.

Governor Mark Sanford went “hiking on the Appalachian Trail” and came back from Argentina with tales of his lurid affair with a woman. All prospects for this conservative to have a run at the presidency vanish and his wife leaves him. Calls for his impeachment fail, but that won’t take away his title as “Scum”.

Governor Sarah Palin quits her job as governor of Alaska. She claims to be stepping down because of numerous lawsuits that are wasting time and money for the state. Supporters like myself think she has made a stupid move that has killed her chances at the presidency, but her ability to raise funds has soared. Not to mention sales of her memoir which has broken records this year.

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for doing…nothing.
Tiger Woods and his Mistresspalooza. One of the most celebrated and inspiring athletes of all time proves to be a schmuck. The list of women he has cheated with during his brief marriage grows and grows and came to light after his wife tried to attack him with a golf club. For now, Woods has quit golf and his wife has moved out.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two entities behind the housing bubble crash are bailed out a few times and then given an unlimited line of credit…forever.

Debt ceiling raised to: $12.4 trillion

Jihadist attempts to blow up himself and a Detroit bound jet on Christmas Day. He gets through security with a device hidden in his underwear. He gets through also despite the fact he is on a watch list, has no baggage, pays cash and gets a one way ticket. Not to mention he is Muslim and his father has reported his extremist ways to the US embassy. American security has egg on its face and, thanks only to a bad detonator and a brave Dutchman, no blood on its hands. The President waits three days to address the country about the attack and is weak. Janet Napalitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, claims everything went well and then backtracks. We are still waiting for her resignation.

We showed up by the millions this past summer when you calculate the total attendance of American citizens at tea parties, rallies, counter0rallies and townhalls across this great nation. One of our main concerns was that our politicians were not reading the bills before voting on them. Now we find our politicians attempting to make it impossible for the American people to read those bills as well. Michael Franc of the Heritage Foundation put it best when he commented, “The American people are now suspicious of not only the lawmakers, but the process they hide behind to do their work.” Senator Max Baucus, who is the mastermind of the new Senate healthcare bill, has claimed that it is too difficult for his staff to make the bill available online.

The lobbying group Sunlight Foundation has been behind a major push to ensure that legislation is brought out for public consumption. The Washington Examiner reports:

A similar effort is under way in Congress. Reps. Brian Baird, D-Wash., and Greg Walden, R-Ore., are circulating a petition among House lawmakers that would force a vote on the 72-hour rule.

Nearly every Republican has signed on, but the Democratic leadership is unwilling to cede control over when bills are brought to the floor for votes and are discouraging their rank and file from signing the petition. Senate Democrats voted down a similar measure last week for the health care bill.

Those of us in the Tea party Movement know that this is not unique to only Democrats. Republicans have played the same game for years as well. Neither party cares if they are completely transparent to their constituents. Congress will be forced in a little over a year to listen to us when Election Day 2010 rolls around. We expect more from our government and demand more from our government. And we will get more!

As a freedom-loving individual, I abhor anything that attempts to destroy that freedom or abridge that freedom in any way. There is a Progressive movement afoot in the country that is attempting to do just that and it seems to me that the slumbering majority of Americans have awoken to a nightmare. Many people accuse me of being racist or just plain hating the President because of my criticism of him. People apparently cannot get beyond that point enough to realize that it is the ideology, the policies, the friendships and the lies that I am critiquing. And this is not just about the President. This is about a Progressive history that permeates community organizations, the court system, Congress, local government, public education, the media and Hollywood. These groups believe that our sacred documents are fundamentally flawed and living – thus they can be changed and need to be changed. The three branches of government are sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect it from all enemies foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, they have become the domestic threat.

I have said that our President wants to be friends with America’s enemies, which must mean that he is the enemy. I believe the same is true for the entire government save for a few souls who still hold to our Founding Principles. What can we do when it seems that we are surrounded and that there is nothing we can do to change our circumstances? A woman on Rush Limbaugh’s show today expressed this same feeling of outrage and slide into hopelessness, but then she pulled herself up and remarked that we are winning. It does not matter that the media pays us little attention and when they do it is to poke fun. Limbaugh let this woman speak for at least ten minutes uninterrupted and she spoke for millions of people. The only thing she got wrong was that she insisted that we needed Rush to inspire us and give us hope and Rush was quick to point out later what was obvious about this caller. She was the inspirer. Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Levine and the like can help keep us informed and motivated, but it is We The People who make the real difference.

We can stop the nightmare and we already are splitting the Progressive movement at the seams. Government healthcare is going nowhere do in large part to our efforts on the ground. The year 2010 is looking to be a year of great transition and real change for America. ACORN is being defeated and crying like a baby as it loses funding and lashes out at those who have brought this giant down. Obama’s czars are being brought into the light and revealed one-at-a-time for the Marxists and traitors that they are. One has fallen and more will follow. Community organizations of every variety are falling under scrutiny. Congress has been hearing from us very clearly and boldly. We are bringing God back into the public square. Americans are taking back their country.

The world is moving to the right and so what sense does it make for America to move to the left? That makes about as much sense as Michael Moore calling capitalism “evil” even as he makes money off of the documentary dedicated to that ideology. Common sense is making a comeback. Americans will not long bear public schools that indoctrinate their children to worship a human leader. Americans will not long bear a government that spends their children’s future. Americans will not long bear a movement that drives to erase their children’s freedom. If not for us, we must do this for the children. We must educate and empower ourselves and each other. We have been given unalienable rights from God and no one can or will take those away.

What can you do? If you are still on the couch, get up! Most people are off the couch and just need to continue what they are doing. Something as small as talking to neighbors and family, emailing your representatives, calling the White House switchboard, making a sign and attending a rally all make a difference. The greatest difference takes place inside of you as you realize that the power of the government lies within you. We can end America’s nightmare now before it is too late. We will end the nightmare!

Detainee photos depicting deplorable acts committed against terrorists in military custody were going to be released until the President blocked that release. The President was advised that the photos would cause more unrest and an uprising against our military members in the Middle East. Now it would seem that the President has more important priorities like sending more taxpayer money to international entities. I knew that the President was not committted to blocking the detainee photos because he never issued an executive order to block the release of the photos. And now we know why.

Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham joined forces to sponsor an amendment that would suppress the photos through the Congress and attached that amendment to a war supplemental bill. Also attached to that bill was an amendment giving a $108 billion line of credit to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is an organization that America should not be connected to because it is working to exchange the dollar as the world currency standard to something else that they will control which entails several currencies being used. This is the group that Tax Cheat Geithner worked for when he committed his tax evasion. Supporting the IMF is like supporting the United Nations.

Top House Democrats warned that keeping the Lieberman-Graham amendment in the supplemental bill would prevent the passage of the bill and thus, the IMF would not get the line of credit. The amendment was removed from the bill in conference. The IMF provision remains in the bill despite protests from Republicans because it is a top priority for the President. This equates to bailouts for foreign countries using our money.

We are not only bailing out companies and banks here, but now foreign countries and at the expense of our troops. Sure makes it easier to write out my quarterly tax payment. Actually, it will give me more fuel for my fire on Independence Day.

The building that should presently house the House of Representatives and the Senate has now become a circus tent covering over a band of buffoons, contortionists and performers. The Speaker of the House, who is third in line to the presidency, performs acrobatics regularly as she tries to convince the country that the CIA lies about everything and that she is clueless when it comes to interrogation techniques. Yesterday she performed her regular act before the media at her regular weekly press conference. She brought along several other Democrat clowns to catch her if she fell. Deflection seemed to be the word of the day for the Madame Speaker.

There was an outcry across this country when it was revealed that our representatives no longer read the bills that they are required to vote on and when the Republicans demanded that the new energy bill, which is really cap and trade legislation, be read aloud in full before the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Democrats hired a speed reader to handle the task. This young man promised that he could read one page every 34 seconds which meant it would take only nine hours for him to read the entire bill. The exercise was begun much to the merriment of Henry Waxman who sponsored the bill, but was never fully completed.

And finally there is Barney Frank who was asked by a Fox News representative if he would call for an investigation of ACORN. He quickly pointed back to George Bush whose administration had also funded ACORN and commented that no one said that there was any misuse of funds at that time. When pressed, he quipped that Fox was being very unfair to Bush. And thus Frank’s high wire act ended. I know the image of Barney Frank in colorful tights balancing on a thin wire over your head is sickening, but I call them like I see them.

So our Congress is now a three-ring circus and no one really is surprised since we have known for years that Washington D.C. is run by a bunch of clowns.

Many of us conservative bloggers had named HR1388 or the GIVE Act a “mandatory servitude bill” but in actuality the mandatory part had been removed from the bill before passage. That is because that mandatory bit has been formed into a bill of its own that is called HR 1444 or the “Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act”. If we thought HR 1388 was heinous, just look at what this bill contains:

Under Duties, Section 4:

(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.

(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

(7) The need for a public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.

(8) The means to develop awareness of national service and volunteer opportunities at a young age by creating, expanding, and promoting service options for primary and secondary school students and by raising awareness of existing incentives.

(9) The effectiveness of establishing a training program on college campuses to recruit and educate college students for national service.

I believe this bill speaks for itself. Get on the phone and call those representatives. This bill is currently in the House.